C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden

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Nearly five years after Bush vowed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice “dead or alive”, it’s the end of the line for the CIA’s Alec Station, the unit dedicated to the hunt for the al-Qaida leader

WASHINGTON, — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

And as the November elections get closer the GOP continues to boast of the hunt for Bin Laden. Pure repug BS.!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html?ex=1309665600&en=3779ed9b98bb9d22&ei=5088

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1. The war on terror was bogus to begin with.

They knew it but used it to promote their unjust war.

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2. Maybe they already got him...

all locked up in some safe house, waiting for the 2008 elections when they will "catch him" right in the nick of time!

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3. the hunt of OBL was illegal

there wasn't any warrant on him

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5. Wasn't there? I just thought there was no warrant for 9/11

because of lack of proof...But he was on the FBI's most wanted for the bombing of the USS cole and other stuff.

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4. Bush says report CIA bin Laden unit closed is ‘incorrect’

After Bush receives flack for New York Times story on Cia giving up the search for Bin Laden the following briefing by Bush in Chicago, IL, July 7, 2006:

QUESTION: You said some time ago that you wanted Osama bin Laden dead or alive. You later regretted the formulation, but maybe no the thought.

BUSH: I regretted the formulation because my wife got on me for talking that way.

QUESTION: We suspected as much, sir. But the question I have — the question I have is, it appears that the CIA has disbanded the unit that was hunting him down. Is it no longer important to track him down?

BUSH: I — you know, it’s just an incorrect story. I mean, we got a — we’re — we got a lot of assets looking for Osama bin Laden. So whatever you want to read in that story, it’s just not true, period.

QUESTION: So you’re still looking?

BUSH: Absolutely. No ands, ifs or buts. And in my judgment, it’s just a matter of time, unless we stop looking. And we’re not going to stop looking so long as I’m the president, not only for Osama bin Laden, but anybody else who plots and plans attacks against the United States of America. We’re going to stay on the offense so long as I’m your president. And my judgment is, if we let up the pressure on him, the world’s more dangerous.

In the short run, we will bring these people to justice. We’ll use good intelligence, we’ll share information with our allies, we will work with friends, we’ll bring people to justice. In the long run, the way you defeat this enemy is the spread of liberty. And that’s what you’re seeing unfold.
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/bush-says-report-cia-bin-laden-unit-closed-is-incorrect